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Ruth McTurk writes: The Housing and Planning Bill passed into law in May, and is now the Housing and Planning Act.  But the campaign against the Act is far from conceding defeat:  previously known as Kill the Housing Bill, it’s now renamed and re-focused as Axe the Housing Act.  There is still alarmingly widespread ignorance […] Read more »

Phil Hearse explains how the world’s richest company rips off workers and governments worldwide. The ruling by EU competition commissioner Margarethe Vestager that Apple should pay the Irish government €13.2 bn, because the derisory 2% tax charged on Apple profits was ‘unfair’ to other companies, reveals just a tiny corner of the tax, labour and […] Read more »

By Andrew Burgin We need to campaign actively against little Brexit Britain and the stripping away of our rights, and chief among those campaigns must be to defend the right to free movement. There are many aspects of life in Britain that those who voted leave hope will improve with Brexit. On holiday in Suffolk […] Read more »

By Dick Nichols August 2, 2016 It is hard to imagine a sharper contrast than that between the 10th National Convention of Portugal’s Left Bloc, held in Lisbon from June 24 to 26, and its predecessor, held in the same city 18 months ago. In 2014, the 9th National Convention of the radical left force […] Read more »

Economist Tom O’Leary explains why Freedom of Movement is fundamental to Britain’s economic development and prosperity The Brexit referendum campaign was dominated by assertions that the UK economy could benefit from access to or participation in the EU single market while opting out of the conditions on Freedom of Movement for workers. These assertions are […] Read more »

In sharp contrast to the attitude towards refugees that prevails in British government circles, Greece – despite its own severe economic and social crisis – offers help and support to refugees. This short film shows how a Greek resort that closed during the country’s financial crisis is now home to more than 300 Syrian and […] Read more »

The Way Out of This Crisis is not Declaring State of Emergency, but Democracy 21/07/2016 Five days after the coup attempt on 15th of July, the NSC and Council of Ministers declared a state of emergency in the country. This step shows the coup attempt might have been blocked, but the desire to rule the country […] Read more »

Left Unity comment on the attempted coup in Turkey No socialist or democrat could support the attempted coup in Turkey launched by sections of the army on the evening of 15 July – despite the ultra-reactionary and repressive nature of the Recep Erdogan’s  government the plotters wanted to overthrow We support the call of HDP […] Read more »

Left Unity congratulates Jeremy Corbyn on his victory in the first battle against the coup plotters. Attempts to win a decision by the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to effectively bar Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership campaign – by wilfully misinterpreting completely straightforward party election rules – were a complete disgrace. The plotters […] Read more »

Left Unity Principal Speaker, Felicity Dowling, writes: The Conservative leadership election has ended abruptly with a walk-over for Theresa May. Brexit has brought a change of leader to the Conservative Party.  But it won’t make life any better for working people.  Irrespective of who the Conservative leader is, let’s make no mistake – they represent […] Read more »